Wednesday, March 28, 2007

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1. Northsider

   The reviewer was Michael Morgan a fellow journalist Not ex Belfast Lord Mayor Martin Morgan .I think the first post was also under the same impression .

   Malachi

   A slight correction. It was both the CO-OP and Liptons stores now known as Grimleys Electrics Andersonstown , which were burned down on Bloody Sunday evening . Not the Busy Bee Supermarket as you stated on page 97 .

   Posted by  on Mar 30, 2007 @ 10:11 PM

2. Malachi makes an excellent point about how the PIRA actions were not an appropriate response to the political crisis. Many have condemned him for simply seeing the conflict as a moralist because he does not offer any alternative to what the PIRA did. But that would be very wrong, as Malachi simply wants to write about what it was like to experience these times. Those who think that he was ‘pathological’ about republicans should read the book and his account of what he himself felt like doing after Bloody Sunday.

   And those who think that he should have written Ulster’s version of Lenin’s ‘What is To Be done’ – miss the point. This book is doubled edged – it shows how the military options were taken up on all sides – but it also shows in its tone, Malachi himself now finally, being able to breathe, live and work the way he wanted to and that he has something to offer all of us.

   Posted by  on Apr 01, 2007 @ 12:44 AM
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